Silver Screen is delicate escapist pop about those romanticized evenings that only happen in teenage B-movies. Soundtracking moments of uncommon vibrancy and pristine clarity, it forgets all the alienation and anxiety of teenage life and remembers only the sweetness. Sparkling with the soft-focused mythology of eternal summers and young love, a gauzy nostalgia reverberates through the aqueous sound of keyboards.  For those brief moments when life imitates art, Silver Screen is almost like a dream.

Beat Connection - Space Vacation

Beat Connection - Silver Screen (Dreamtrak Diamond Sound)

Surf Noir will be released on April 11th. A mini-album featuring eight songs, it expands on the palette of fantasy pop revealed on the single Silver Screen. Sunburn kicks off proceedings with sun-baked psychedelic guitar melodies over a shifty beat, invoking summertime nostalgia; In The Water with its samples of seagulls and clapping beats, quickly dissolves into a tropical dance party with layers of washed-out vocals and steel drums; Theme From Yours Truly is dance music through and through, samples re-recorded and re-arranged, it still hammers home; and Silver Screen with its Afro-pop bounce, smooth vocals and understated genius are just four of the pop gems featured here.

Beat Connection summon up the mundane things in life, the things that we pretend don't matter but the stuff that keeps everyone going; the first sunny day, getting the girl, slacking off, partying… things that are overly romanticized in movies. So in that spirit of cutting loose, let’s have a good time and not worry too much: Saturday night always becomes Sunday morning.

Beat Connection - Sunburn

Beat Connection - Theme From Yours Truly

Beat Connection - Fresh Touch

Beat Connection - Silver Screen

Beat Connection - Same Damn Time

D/R/U/G/S’s three-song debut Love / Lust will be released through new Moshi Moshi imprint Tender Age on 9th May 2011.

D/R/U/G/S is the project of one Callum Wright and D/R/U/G/S craft some of the most euphoric, radical new music around. Made with the freeform attitude of synth visionary Oneohtrix Point Never, the fuck-you braggadocio of the Wu-Tang Clan, the cast-iron integrity of punk and the headlong desperate rush of rave, it’s untamed music for the moment.

Love / Lust is, first and foremost, dance music, but listen in and you can hear it’s made with the guts, impatience and imagination of the best British DIY music, from psyche rock to punk to rave to grime. Velodrome I widescreen dance music beats and bleeps, duck and weave effortlessly around each other and Velodrome II is a mash up of everything Callum has taken in over the past year; minimal techno, ambient, house and industrial.

Cal had this to say: "I write new music every day. If I’m in the mood to just write I’ll record all kinds of sounds. I know how I want my tracks to feel but I don’t know how to get there. No one does really. That struggle is what you hear, that’s the music.” It’s never going to stop, trust me. 

D/R/U/G/S - Love/Lust

D/R/U/G/S - Velodrome I

D/R/U/G/S - Velodrome II

Beat Connection - In The Water

Beat Connection - Balearic Trunk Rhythm

"Intricate and soothing electronic music" Mixmag 
"Alluringly warm and empathic tunes" Time Out 
"Timeless, transcendental club music" iDJ 
"Laid-back atmospherics and arpeggiated synths with Spartan four-on-the floor beats" NME

Following the sellout debut 12" 'Love/Lust', D/R/U/G/S aka 24-year-old Callum Wright returns with a new three track record, 'Connected'. We're extremely happy at being able to be working with Cal on this again and so, Tender Age will be releasing Connected on 12" and Digital on the 7th & 28th of November respectively.

This record could best be heard as organic house music, music which at its heart is for dancing and never troubles itself with genre or category too much. It's a process of growing and developing and that's manifest in the music; old school rave keys and production at home in warm, melodic house and techno. Catch him, revel in and dance to the music at some point over the ensuing months, as D/R/U/G/S will be supporting Digitalism throughout their European tour.

Connected

Hyperdream Clap

Unified Field

Tender Age is a record label and host of parties supported by its friends Moshi Moshi Records.

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Beat Connection - Silver Screen
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Beat Connection - Surf Noir
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Beat Connection - In The Water
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D/R/U/G/S - Connected

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